DALLAS -- The parks and recreation department is warning residents near a south Dallas playground to be on the lookout for symptoms of mercury exposure after light bulbs were illegally dumped at the playground and a vacant lot across the street.

Nearly 1,000 electrical and fluorescent light bulbs were found Thursday at the Peary Play Lot in the 2800 block of Peary Ave. near Malcolm X Boulevard.

I hate those CFLs. Ive had several burst into flames in my house, and the resulting noxious fumes will burn your lungs and eyes terribly.

I had two blow up, but no flames. Good grief, flames? One blew up in our bedroom over the bed, another in our family room over a couch. After cleaning up the mess, we banned CFL bulbs from our house, and stocked up on as many incandescent bulbs as we could store. People, don't use CFL's in living quarters!

CFLs are quite normal here, but I do not like the color.
I hear the stupid scare about Mercury in the USSA, and calling hazmat teams when a CFL breaks...Geeesh, rolling the balls of it and coating coins was a favorite childhood pastime.
Is that why I am now a stupid old fart?

You should be proud to sacrifice yourself on the Altar of Liberalism.”

I guess I am destined for the retraining camps. When the word first came out about CFL’s I stocked up on all the normal sizes of regular bulbs I use in my lamps and probably have enough to last the rest of my lifetime. I’ll use candles before I use a CFL.

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posted on 10/05/2013 8:46:01 PM PDT
by Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)

A very dear friend of mine would have a disturbing negative reaction to exposure to the light from CFLs... it would trigger a neurological event much like a seizure... it was absolutely heartbreaking to witness.

Actually my son told me the same thing right after I bought my lifetime supply. Using my best senior logic I told him that one of these days the internet might crash and then at least I will have my own supply with no worry. I call the cupboard they are in my “Nancy Closet” versus the area where I have all our food stored which is called the “Obama Closet”.

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posted on 10/05/2013 9:05:53 PM PDT
by Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)

Exposure to LIGHT from a CFL?
While it might not be as relaxing as light from an incandescent bulb, it is hard to see it as debilitating.
Keep in mind, I am not a proponent of CFL bulbs. I do not like or support their use, but I do live in Real-ville.

No sir this is mercury gas not liquid. If you breathe it in its a whole lot worse than playing with the liquid The tubes have 150000000 times the concentration that you should ever be allowed to be exposed. These mercury vapor lamps are pure evil that GE and the EPA want to make us
All use over and over than have to recycle them exactly how they say or get in trouble

Some as swipe like this should have dropped off these lights in front of the local EPA office. Or the local demoncrap office holders office. Or the newspaper office. Freak them out. Make them look at their mercury filled glass tubes and be afraid

These losers poison children Probably illegals who just didn’t want to pay the recycling fees

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posted on 10/05/2013 9:26:44 PM PDT
by Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the guvmint you deserve)

They HARM sensitive people. This is WELL proven. Look up. ‘ fluorescents and health ‘. They are TRULY EViL and the governments and giant companies have made Trillions on them for 50 years and if the word doesn’t get out for 50 more.

They give off UV. They give off radio frequencies. They operate at 35000 hz. They destroy nearby electronics

They are as evil as anything ever invented. Glass tubes filled with mercury gas poisoning the health eyes and minds of gernerations.

Our stupid evil guvmint has been at the forefront of lying about these things and casting off the vulnerable and sensitive among us as’just a few ‘.

We need to end fluorescent lamps aka mercury vapor lamps NOW

LEDs and regular lamps are fine and can completely replace.

Do NOT use these. They are as evil as the killing of babies

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posted on 10/05/2013 9:40:31 PM PDT
by Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the guvmint you deserves)

Yes, I do understand that CFLs are bad. That is why I rarely turn one on. I am not, however, going to believe that a five min. exposure to one is going to shorten or threaten my life.
All of my normal lighting is incandescent.

We stocked up on quite a few of the old light bulbs as we had room for, but how I wish we could get them back again. After asking around, not a single person that I’ve spoken with disposes of these CFL’s at a recycling center. All of them go into the regular trash and on to landfills. It won’t be long until water tables are contaminated with mercury!!! When will D.C. ever learn that they aren’t qualified to make our choice for us!!!???

I had two blow up, but no flames. Good grief, flames? One blew up in our bedroom over the bed, another in our family room over a couch. After cleaning up the mess, we banned CFL bulbs from our house, and stocked up on as many incandescent bulbs as we could store. People, don't use CFL's in living quarters!

I've used them for over ten years. Never had one "blow up" or catch on fire. Also, in the living quarters the lamps are inside fixtures that contain the lamp. No worries here.

For decades those long fluorescent tubes have been used in schools, office buildings, stores, etc. and no one cared a bit. Heck, as a school kid me and my friends used to throw rocks at them to break them if we ever saw them in dumpsters. Why all the fuss now?

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posted on 10/06/2013 6:34:33 AM PDT
by al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)

Oh yeah. Plug in something expensive and sensitive to harmonics exit to one and see what happens. I dare you

And the fact that they are toxic ,cause fires ,’and give off non visible radiation and radio frequencies and hurt people should be enough but I know there will Still be some of you defenders out there for some reason defending the indefnedible - putting dangerous mercury filled lass tubes in our homes

Here is who you are aligning with like it or not

MERCURY PURVEYORS

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posted on 10/06/2013 8:22:58 AM PDT
by Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the guvmint you deserves)

Do you care about mercury poisoning or not. If not I suggest you tell everyone to bring their lamps over do you can break them and have fun like a teenager
Otherwise look up mercury and realize this is a big deal and stop copping the government lines that are being used to poison us and lie

‘Its only a little bit of mercury’

’ it’s only a few sensitive people that are harmed’

BS!

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posted on 10/06/2013 8:40:31 AM PDT
by Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the guvmint you deserves)

No ... they don’t last. That’s why I’ve stopped using them. I still have 7 year old incandescent bulbs burning brightly but could never get a CFL to last a couple of months. I only have 1 left in the house and two outside.

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posted on 10/06/2013 11:21:52 AM PDT
by al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)

This is not controversy. And it did not start with The stupid CFL which are A complete and unmitigated disaster. People have been warning about the tubes since the 1980s. They have been ignored and now I am taking up the banner as a chemical engineer who understands the horror this is inflicting on the world that no one can see taste or feel

The sooner we stop this the sooner we stop millions of people a day from being irreversibly poisoned

It was simply the GREED of the MERCURY PURVEYORS who said.

’ hey let’s get our mercury lamps into every home now !’

Around 1994. Then they paid the bureaucrats and the global warming fools to pick up the banner For the last 20 yrs. it’s ongoing

Save the planet. Install CFLs they said

Now these highly dangerous noxious and toxic lamps are in every none

Because of this now everyone MUST be aware of the truth

Not just business owners who STILL after 70 years of these things mostly don’t know they are filled with mercury gas

BTW. I have never met Anyone who likes fluorescents. No one

They suck and are terrible light. No decent restaurant would use them

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posted on 10/06/2013 11:32:17 AM PDT
by Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the guvmint you deserve)

Oh yeah. Plug in something expensive and sensitive to harmonics exit to one and see what happens. I dare you

I'm not categorically defending CFL bulbs, as you have accused, so don't suggest I'm a tool of the "mercury purveyors". For the record, I am 100% opposed to any governmental mandates for the use of such bulbs.

I am challenging one specific, indefensible statement that you made.

Do you actually know what "harmonics" are, or is that just a word that you saw on some environmental wacko web site? A properly designed electronic device will not be damaged by the level of RF energy radiated by a CFL bulb. If a device was so poorly engineered that that were the case, it would be driven from the marketplace almost immediately.

For better or worse, we are surrounded by "radio frequencies". Radio stations, TV stations, cell phones, cell phone towers, police and emergency services, WiFi services, radar, light dimmers, wireless everything you can imagine. And, yes, even some LED bulbs that are being touted as the eventual replacement for the CFL.

Virtually every modern electronic device radiates some RF energy, particularly those with switching mode power supplies.

Are you one of those Luddites who wants all of those things eliminated?

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posted on 10/06/2013 12:10:31 PM PDT
by Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)

Nice try I am a power quality engineer certified by Elspec
Look up them and get back to me

I get paid to diagnose utility caused problems in terms of power factor voltage and phase imbalance and incorrect metering. My equipment which is calibrated stands up in court vs utility meters
You probably assume all metering is correct as you would assume our brilliant guvmint would surely never allow 99c crap from china to harm our electronics. This a 99 c bulb that has a 25-60000 hz ballast inside that is supposed to make sure the mercury doesn’t ignite after lit up
I will spare you embarrassment by noting that assumption starts with?

Now I see you’re quickly backtracking once I told you who you were unknowingly shilling for. The Mercury Purveyors. Yes I coined that term

So I am not only about not having the stupid government and their stupid global warming idiots shove this crap down our throats

I want ALL mercury lamps Banned period. Now and forever more

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posted on 10/06/2013 12:47:55 PM PDT
by Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the guvmint you deserve)

I don’t care what you claim to be. Chemical engineer? Power quality engineer? Whatever.

I don’t shill for anybody.

Show me some documented cases in which RF energy (either radiated or coupled into the power line) from a CFL bulb caused the failure of an electronic device. I don’t mean some annoying hash on an AM radio that goes away when you turn off the light, I mean actual failure to continue operation.

That is the only point I am challenging you on. Why can’t you accept that and prove me wrong on that point, instead of accusing me of being involved with some sort of evil conspiracy.

That crap just makes you look like a nut.

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posted on 10/06/2013 1:26:18 PM PDT
by Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)

Watch this and please feel free to defend your insult again proving you are indeed a shill. Defend forcing sensitive people to suffer under these horrible harmful radiation spewing crap the EPA makes us use

These awful relics of the 1940s hurt people. There is a much better way

People need not SUFFER under these hideous monsters anymore

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posted on 10/06/2013 2:22:56 PM PDT
by Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the guvmint you deserve)

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